Blaiz Major’s athletic career began slowly on the golf course with her dad, Michael, who was a golf instructor.

Eventually, she left the course to take up soccer because it was more fast-paced and she loved to score goals.

But when she followed sister Chaz into lacrosse, Blaiz, the youngest of three children, seemed to find her niche.

“I used to watch her play and the game seemed like it was fun,” said Blaiz, who is now the leading scorer as a senior at Rancho Bernardo High.

Q: How did your lacrosse career get started?

A: With my Easter money in seventh grade, I bought a pink $18 lacrosse stick. My best friend started playing lacrosse because I bought that pink stick.

Q: Do you normally have that kind of effect on people?

A: It’s not unusual for me to be in the middle of things. I’m the jokester in my family. I’m the very loud one.

Q: Are you always that way?

A: I really love to leave an impression. I want to do something in life that I’ll be remembered. I hate the status quo. I just want to be Blaiz.

Q: How did you get the name Blaiz?

A: I didn’t want to have a unique name like this. It’s nothing more than my parents just wanted our names to all end in Z. My sister is Chaz and my brother is Cruz. Even my dog Breeze has a Z in his name.

Q: Have you kind of matured into your name?

A: Everyone told my parents that Blaiz was a boys name. With my personality, though, I couldn’t have been an Ashley or something like that. I never got picked on because of my name. People would ask me if that’s my real name or were my parents hippies.

Q: What do like the most about lacrosse?

A: You could play a soccer game and never touch the ball. In lacrosse, you see it all the time.

Q: Anything you’d change about lacrosse?

A: I wish there was more contact like the boys game. Sometimes, my teammates say I should go play boys lacrosse.

Q: Are you a year-round lacrosse player?

A: I grew up playing golf until third grade and I still play on the golf team at RB and I love those teammates, but the pace is extremely slow compared to lacrosse. Golf really doesn’t fit my personality, plus you have to be quiet all the time on the course.

Q: Do your plans include playing lacrosse at the next level?

A: I want to go to a community college for two years and try to figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life. I’m looking at USF after that to get that big-city feel. I love cold weather and rain too. That’s why I have four pairs of rain boots.

Q: Are you going to be able to put your stick in the closet and never play again?